“If you put something on the Internet you are giving up ownership of it.” There are plenty of internet culture outside Western that still respect ownership, people don’t just take random things on internet without permission. Western internet culture =/= entire internet.

Copyright law if done correctly can actually develop culture and innovation.

For example, having a law that forbids big company to patent essential important technology, while allowing small independent creator to protect their IP from big corpo churning out copycats (like a lot of company in China illegally printing merchandise with art from small creator).

Misskey, which is Japanese-made ActivityPub-enabled social media software, has option to enable ads natively for instance admin.

In most cases, the ads are just non-tracking community ads, like promoting YouTube channel, indie animation, pop-up cafe event, or server hosting service. Usually the ads are matched to instance theme.

People realize that running instances needs money and letting the instance admin to make living from it is acceptable. Having monthly patron oftentimes not enough.

This is different case and country. There are plenty of dead fedi instance from Southeast Asia because the donation itself is not enough as the culture of donation is not the same as Western countries. Most people will just simply use free social media and thinking ads are good tradeoff.

That’s Western fediverse.

Fediverse instance in Asia often run ads or other kind of monetisation. Like the second biggest instance.

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Instead of car, people of my country usually able to drive motorcycle.

But not me. I’d rather take my bicycle. I don’t want to deal with cost of maintaining motorcycle.

Japan has so many unique store that operated in their country with region-locked apps/games.

As far as I remember, even DMM and DLsite already has their own game store on Android.

This is truly a win for Japanese customer and company.

There was anti-AI art campaign a few months back by Artstation user due to Artstation allowing them.

*Has bigger catalog if you were fans of mostly Western and European music.

Vintage Story

Basically MInecraft for grown ups, also Native Linux available.

So, it’s Servo?

https://servo.org/

It’s also written in Rust.

…I think the previous comment is mistyping LMMS software to LLM.

I recall randomly check open source project and some of them has German public funding.

Clip Studio Paint IIt was way ahead than any commercial or FOSS alternative. Especially if you’re illustrator or comic artist working in specialized workflow (East Asia and SEA industry).

Tried Krita back then, but still lacks a lot of major important feature and customizable UI layout.

Heliboard language supports is limited, not on par with Google or Microsoft Android keyboard unfortunately. Especially for non-alphabet language.

Integration with DeepL API like Misskey would be cool!

Technically you can, here’s this community looks like on Mastodon.

You can subscribe them manually via search.

I follow several Lemmy communities on my Masotodon and Misskey account.

They don’t need to get big like Meta or any Western social media.

They simply need to serve their targeted demography well to be able to survive. A lot of East Asian platform doing basically that, still alive even after a 15+ years.

Local social media is different from bigger social media platform.

Those big social media generally are American/Western-centric. Sure, you can find local community on them, but their moderation system are often still Western-centric.

You’ll surprised on how often other language being moderated (deleted/removed) because it mistaken as hate speech. For example, word that in certain language has neutral meaning, but mistaken as offensive in English.

Also, local social media often designed to local culture. Xiaohongshu and Plurk are the primary example. Entirely unique UI and user experience.

Even fediverse also this cultural-focused software. Take a look on Misskey (a Japanese-made fediverse software), it primarily designed for Japanese internet culture, which entirely different from Mastodon or Pleroma.